Mario and the Magician and Other Stories

Mario and the Magician and Other Stories In this extraordinary collection of short stories Thomas Mann uses settings as diverse as Germany Italy the Holy Land and the Far East to explore a theme which always preoccupied him the two faces

Title: Mario and the Magician and Other Stories

Author: Thomas Mann

ISBN: 9780749386627

Page: 388

Format: Paperback

In this extraordinary collection of short stories, Thomas Mann uses settings as diverse as Germany, Italy, the Holy Land and the Far East to explore a theme which always preoccupied him the two faces of things Thus, in A Man and His Dog and Disorder and Early Sorrow, small domestic tempests become symbolic of the discordant muddle of humanity In The Transposed Heads andIn this extraordinary collection of short stories, Thomas Mann uses settings as diverse as Germany, Italy, the Holy Land and the Far East to explore a theme which always preoccupied him the two faces of things Thus, in A Man and His Dog and Disorder and Early Sorrow, small domestic tempests become symbolic of the discordant muddle of humanity In The Transposed Heads and The Tables of Law the demands of the intellect clash with the desires of physiology, an idea developed fully in The Black Swan, where body and spirit are tragically out of harmony Written between 1918 and 1953, these stories offer us both an insight into Mann s development of thought and also some impressive literature from these interesting times.

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I am delighted and surprised how Mann could capture the nuances in one of the stories 'The tranposed Heads' about Indian society, rituals and psychology of people. He gets into the skin -So accurate . Other one -'The tables of the Law' was an assigned work to him and he did the job well. A well crafted Symbolism in 'Mario and the Magician' . Enjoyable conversations and the one liners delivered through his characters are drawn well from life's real experiences. An Enjoyable read.

This short frightening horror story, told so brilliantly by Thomas Mann, is a splendid example of his ability to present a subject briefly and succinctly. The theme of homosexuality is common in his work, no more so starkly than here. Mann's bisexuality, though rarely openly presented, and of which he openly spoke, was a prominent imprint in various pieces of his work, especially explicit here.